AMD Radeon R5 M315 vs AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R5 M315

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M315 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M315 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

224 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.41GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M315 +210%

0.745 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M315

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Radeon HD 6490M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

May 2011

Gem System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

794 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

64bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.41GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

2

-

384

Shading Units

160

24

TMUs

8

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

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Theoretical Performance

7.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

23.28 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

745.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

745.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

46.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Meso

GPU Name

Seymour

Meso LE (216-0864046)

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX M2 (216-0809000)

GCN 3.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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